Impersonator: An actor who attempts to imp–personate actual people for a role‚ such as in historical and biographical stories. I chose Jamie Foxx for my impersonator actor. In 2004 Jamie stared in the title role of the film “Ray”. This film is a biographical film about the life of Ray Charles. Jamie did so well at portraying Ray Charles that he received an Academy Award for best actor. Personality actor: An actor whose own personality tends to define all the characters he portrays‚ so that the
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James Dean was born on February 8‚ 1931‚ at the Seven Gables apartment house located at the corner of 4th Street and McClure Street in Marion‚ Indiana‚ to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. Six years after his father had left farming to become a dental technician‚ James and his family moved to Santa Monica‚ California. He was enrolled at Brentwood Public School in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles‚ but transferred soon afterward to the McKinley Elemetary school.[5] The family spent several years
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For someone who completed just three big feature films in his brief career‚ the effect of James Dean on popular culture is truly remarkable. It is not just the films themselves‚ but the persona and the magnetism that James Dean exhibited that attracts such fascination and admiration. James Dean’s performances hint at so much more. His reaction to the world around him seems to sum up how so many young people around the world relate to their lives. He was reared by his aunt and uncle in Fairmont
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officer is actually like. They did it so well that it won various awards. Training day came to theaters in February of 2001. It stars Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke‚ and directed by Antoine Fuqua. Many awards where given to this movie for its excellence. The biggest of them all being the Academy Award for Best Actor which‚ was given to Denzel Washington in 2002. Others included where best director‚ best film‚ best villain‚ and best cameo.
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Morgan Freeman Actor‚ director‚ narrator. Morgan Freeman was born on June 1‚ 1937 in Memphis‚ Tennessee. As a kid‚ Freeman spent a good portion of his time scraping together enough money to see movies‚ where he gained an early admiration for actors like Gary Cooper‚ spencer Tracy‚ and Sidney Poitier. It was luck that Freeman himself got into acting. He was in junior high and‚ as punishment for pulling out a chair from underneath a girl he had a crush on‚ Freeman was ordered to participate in the
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that many people become susceptible to because they don’t understand this pandemic. Tom Hanks won the Academy Award‚ Golden Globe Award‚ and a Silver Bear for Best Actor‚ and lost weight for the role of Andrew Beckett in the film‚ conveying a realistic portrayal of those with AIDS. Rock Hudson‚ a beloved and accomplished romantic actor of the 50’s and 60’s was one of the first Hollywood actors to die of AIDS‚ and his diagnosis occurred at the same time as the revelation of AIDS itself. Hudson closeted
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Look closer. The chilling tag-line of multi award winning American Beauty has great relatability‚ from the lives of all of the characters to the hidden beauty on showcase throughout the film. It cannot simply be filed into one genre‚ instead being a drama‚ comedy‚ tragedy and more. Director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Alan Ball fine-tuned the film‚ resulting in a triumph of writing‚ acting and directing. The movie follows the last few months of everyman Lester Burnham’s (played by the seemingly ideal
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based on the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest written by Ken Kesey. The reviews for this film are phenomenal. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was also nominated for 9 academy awards. The film won 5 out of the 9 nominations. The awards include Best Picture‚ Best Director‚ Best Screenplay‚ Best Actor (Jack Nicholson)‚ and Best Actress (Fletcher). One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a very interesting yet unusal film. The dark comedy‚ conflict between the main characters‚ and the setting is what
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On the Waterfront is the battle between good and evil.” Do you agree? The film On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan depicts the conflict between righteous and evil in 1954. The dock workers live under the fear of Johnny Friendly‚ the leader of the corrupt mob run union. The antagonist Johnny Friendly requires complete loyalty from not only the longshoremen but also his henchmen‚ in order to maintain his power in the waterfront community‚ he does not allow any betrayal or even the idea of
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interview for the American Film Institute‚ actor Jeff Bridges‚ discussing 1941’s Citizen Kane‚ said its director was "twenty-five years old‚ and he didn’t know what he couldn’t do...and Greg Toland gave him all the confidence in the world (2011‚ 0:28 sec.). Bridges was of course talking about the late‚ great Orson Welles. But who was Greg Toland? Well known in Hollywood at the time‚ Toland was a longtime cinematographer who had not only won an Academy Award for 1939’s Wuthering Heights‚ but more importantly
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